Rapid guide: Gender, COVID-19 and audit

Internal audit teams must rise to the challenge of the COVID-19 global pandemic by tailoring audit work within this constantly evolving emergency context. COVID-19 may exacerbate the specific risks and challenges that women and girls face and must be considered when carrying out programmatic interventions and conducting operations.

This rapid guide discusses the key risks affecting women and girls in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as thoughts on how to include gender perspectives in our audits in this emerging global emergency context.